Anti-Catholic and anti-radical nativism defined enemies first while racial nativism defined the in-group first

Evidence

The anti-radical and anti-Catholic traditions had, on the surface, a negative character that sets them apart from a third and more recent style of nativist thinking. The first two traditions declared what America was not, more clearly than what it was or should be; they aimed from the outset to define the nation’s enemies rather than its essence. Racial nativism, on the other hand, began the other way around. Originally and basically, what may be called the Anglo-Saxon tradition characterized the in-group directly, the alien forces only by implication. … Despite the inherently parochial bias involved in pointing to a single, limited source of nationhood, Anglo-Saxonism gave only the slightest inkling of its nativistic potentialities until the late nineteenth century. — John Higham, Strangers in the Land, 55

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Nativism’s ideological enemies got remade as biologically fixed racial ones — John Higham, Strangers in the Land: Patterns of…, 1580; Anti-Catholic and anti-radical nativism shared one core assumption of immigrant disloyalty; Nativism abandoned ideological conversion for permanent racial exclusion once radical threat dissolved — John Higham, Strangers in the Land: Patterns of…, 1580 (+6 more)

Broader Connections

• Anti-Catholic and anti-radical nativism shared one core assumption of immigrant disloyalty #expands (0.95)
• Racial nativism supplanted anti-Catholicism because it fit the new immigrant threat #corroborates (0.92) — John Higham, Strangers in the Land, 567
• American nativism racialized over time rather than starting as racism #corroborates (0.88) — John Higham, Strangers in the Land, 2003
• Nativism abandoned ideological conversion for permanent racial exclusion once radical threat dissolved #corroborates (0.85) — John Higham, Strangers in the Land, 1580
• Religious identity racialized Irish Catholics as a separate inferior race #exemplifies (0.85)
• Anti-Catholic nativism peaked after mass Catholic immigration, not before it #qualifies (0.80) — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 287
• Enemy distinctions constitute rather than merely reflect the theological-political divide #expands (0.75) — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab, 208